On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:35:36PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: > According to the announcement: "Trademarks will not be automatically > reserved. But there will be an objection-based mechanism for > trademark owners where their arguments for protection will be > considered." > > How expensive or practical is it to trademark .onion for purposes of > the Tor network? > > "There will be a limited application period where any established > entity from anywhere in the world can submit an application that will > go through an evaluation process." > > Is an application to ICANN being considered? The Tor project and > network is a well established entity, having an office etc and > thousands of relay nodes (by next year). My understanding is that ICANN will not start taking applications until next year anyway. Supposedly the cost of a gTLD will be in the USD $100k+ range. I think that the central question for Tor at this moment is the tradeoff between the long-term value of purchasing a gTLD and the long-term value of spending the USD $100k on Tor development. Given the amount of Tor development work that needs to be done, I am inclined to think that Tor should not spend its money this way. Perhaps some nice fellow will donate a gTLD instead. Geoff
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